8th Grade Applied Math Activities
Middle School Math: Taxable Income, Income Tax Game Using Percentages (Easel)
By Geography & Math Made Easy
This is a real-life lesson that encourages students to evaluate taxable income based on one's income and the marginal tax bracket. Kids will love this and have a great time discussing the occupations and how much each is taxed. This lesson does not go as far as to discuss personal deductions and standard deductions, which would lower your taxable income. That is for another day. This is a simple introduction to how Federal taxes are collected.
Focuses on taxable Income, understanding taxes, calculating taxes
Easel Activity Included
OBJECTIVE
- The learner will be able to calculate taxable income based on tax brackets based on percentages.
- The learner will understand the purpose of taxation and the difference between state and federal tax.
MATERIALS
- Occupation Game Cards (1 set of 24 per group) and
- Chart (1 per student)
- Game Instructions
PREPARATION
o Set up the classroom desks or tables so that students are sitting in groups of two or three.
INTRODUCTION: (20 minutes)
Ask students:
Available with purchase
GAME INSTRUCTIONS
Divide students into groups of two or three. Each group will receive a set of Occupation Game Cards. It is suggested that you laminate the cards, cut them, and place them in zip-lock bags so they can be used every year.
Students will be directed to place all cards face down. Distribute the Marginal Tax Bracket Chart.
Students within the group will take turns turning over an Occupation Game Card. Each will write the occupation, taxable income, and income tax percent using the Marginal Tax Bracket Chart provided on each student’s activity sheet (see below). Students will work together to calculate the income tax and lifetime total.
Alternative: you may have students compete against those within their team as another way to play, rather than having one group compete against the other groups in the class. Whatever works best for your students and classroom environment is the best route to take.
The goal is to reach a lifetime total of 100,000 taxable incomes to win. This will require multiple games, or to make it more challenging, raise the Lifetime taxable income goal to 150,000 or 200,000, which will make the game run longer.
Students can create charts on notebook paper for additional games.
Once they reach the lifetime goal, they win that round. Then have them play again.
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Independent Purchasing Money Skill ABA Program
By Behavior Highway
Empower learners to handle money transactions confidently with our comprehensive ABA program focused on independent money skills. This digital download is ideal for educators, therapists, and parents seeking to teach essential skills for counting money, determining totals, and calculating change. The program includes a detailed instruction sheet and a vending machine visual to make learning engaging and practical.
What's Included:
- Program Instruction Sheet: A step-by-step guide on how to implement the independent money skills program. This sheet includes detailed instructions, goals, and strategies to ensure effective teaching and learning.
- Vending Machine Visual: A colorful and interactive visual aid designed to simulate real-life purchasing scenarios. Learners can practice selecting items, counting money, and determining the total cost, enhancing their understanding through hands-on experience.
Key Features:
- Comprehensive Guide: The instruction sheet provides clear and detailed steps for teaching money skills, making it easy for educators and parents to implement the program effectively.
- Interactive Learning: The vending machine visual creates a fun and engaging way for learners to practice money transactions, helping them apply skills in a realistic context.
- Skill Development: Focuses on crucial money skills such as counting coins and bills, calculating the total cost of items, and determining the correct change to receive from the cashier.
- Versatile Use: Suitable for a variety of learning environments, including classrooms, therapy sessions, and home use, providing flexibility for different educational needs.
Equip your learners with the skills they need to handle money transactions independently with our Independent Money Skills ABA Program. Download today to provide a comprehensive, engaging, and practical learning experience!
Real-Life Math fun activity with Ratios! - Which gas should we buy?
By Daniel
Which gas should I buy? Should I always buy the cheapest kind? Students use their knowledge of ratios and unit rates to make good, financially sound real-life choices.
The price of the different kinds of gas and the gas mileage each one gives you on your car has an influence on your choice.
The mathematical topics covered in this task include:
- Ratios
- Unit Rates
- Problem Solving
- Logical Thinking
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This game is available in a 5 for 3 bundle. It is a card game that helps to reinforce a knowledge of The Order of Operations. Some calculations on the cards are particularly difficult, which is why we included a full answer sheet just in case there are any queries. The card game is also easily prepared thanks to easy-cut guides, and can be combined with our Addition Battle, Subtraction Battle and Negative Integers Battle card games for a more varied gaming experience. This card game is also available in a bundle of 5 games for the price of 3. For savings, click here to see. You may also like: Order of Operations Rummy Card Game If you have any comments or suggestions, and to stay updated please follow us or take a look at our Facebook Page Please click here to visit our website for more information about LittleStreams
SCAVENGER HUNT One-step Inequalities
By Candy Apple Class Aids
✨Unlock the Fun in Learning Solving One-Step Inequalities!✨
Engage your students with an exciting kinesthetic activity designed specifically for mastering one-step inequalities! With 10 interactive stations, this engaging learning activity will get your students moving and thinking critically.
How It Works:
- Start with a Student Sheet: Each student receives a scavenger hunt sheet to track their progress. Students may select where to begin, or you may assign them to a particular station.
- Solve and Record: At each poster, students solve the challenge problem at the bottom of the poster, record their answer on the student recording sheet, and find their next destination based on their answer.
- Explore and Discover: Once students find their answer, they are going to “sprint” (or walk calmly ☺) to the poster with their answer at the top of it.
- Collaborate and Compete: As they sprint (or walk calmly) to new stations, they can work cooperatively while reinforcing key concepts.
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✅Promotes Active Learning: Keeps students engaged through movement and
collaboration.
✅Reinforces Key Skills: Focuses on understanding linear inequalities in a fun,
interactive way.
✅Flexible Setup: Perfect for any classroom environment—adaptable to your
teaching style!
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Learning about Scale in Architecture | Distance Learning
By Innovations in Technology
Ratios and scale are math concepts that are used in everyday life. This activity gets students up and moving and lets them practice these skills by measuring and re-scaling everyday objects in your classroom. Great way to practice these math concepts in a fun way with a partner! This lesson works well for math, engineering, or CTE classes and could also be used as an extension activity.
This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.
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Write Equations to Represent Verbal Description Printable Scavenger Hunt
By Cockrell's Creations Math and More
This fun Writing Equations to Represent Verbal Descriptions Scavenger Hunt will have your students engaged and excited about practicing mathematical concepts. Students are given a set of twelve problems written in a verbal context. They write an equation to represent each.
Task cards are printed and placed randomly around the learning area. Students can begin at any card. They are presented with a verbal description of an equation. Each student will write the equation to represent the verbal description. He then locates that equation on a different card. He writes an equation to represent the wording on that card and continues until he completes all twelve. If he returns, on the twelfth turn, to the starting point, he has written them correctly.
This can be used as an independent or partner activity to review or reinforce application of the concept.
Simply print, cut (and laminate), and post!
Percent of a Number | Printable and Digital Math Activity
By Matemaths
This drag and drop, self checking and no prep activity is an engaging way for your students to practice percent of a number problems: it includes finding the part given the percent and whole, and finding the percent given the part and whole
Students will solve 20 problems.
A printable version is also included.
Perfect for:
- Early finishers
- End of the year activities
- Back to school activities
This activity is designed to work on laptops, tablets, or smartphones, making it accessible to any of your learners and students!
If they need to complete it on different days they just have to save the address at the top of the page and they will start back right where they left off.
Since this activity is online (interactive pages) there is very little prep; just provide the link, and off they go! There are no locks to configure or clues to hide—everything you need is online. No Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams logins are necessary.
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Inequalities Activity Writing and Graphing Task Cards Christmas
By Mathologist
Level 1: Appropriate for introducing inequalities.
Inequalities Task cards are included. There are 20 printable task cards and one-page answer sheet.
All the answers to the task cards are included.
Ideal for early practice or introduction to inequalities in middle school math, this resource encourages students to solve and graph inequalities with ease and holiday cheer.
More levels on inequalities available:
Solving Inequalities with Addition and Subtraction, Guided Notes and Practice
Solving Inequalities with Multiplication and Division Guided Notes and Practice
Solving Multi-Step Inequalities Guided Notes and Practice
Solving Compound Inequalities (AND and OR) Guided Notes and Practice Activity
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Digital Fall Task Cards - 1 MONTH - Google Slides - Functional Academics - Math
By FUNctional Academics Educator
Thank you for your interest in my product!
This is a NO PREP, download and go resource!
This download includes one month (20 days) of fall task cards on Google Slides. There are 3 slides per day that are color coded. These task cards would work great for any of the fall months. Task cards can be done as a group when projected onto the board, individually, set aside for fast finishers or used for morning work.
- 60 total slides
Skills included:
-Money totals
-Change back
-Time elapsed
-ABC order
-Nouns, verbs and adjectives
-Common & proper nouns
-Fact & opinion
-Greater than, less than & equal to
-Add to
-Finding the missing addend
& more
This product is great for distance learning utilizing Google Classroom or Gmail accounts. This resource is also great for schools and districts pushing for more technology use in school or during school closures.
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Middle School Math: Road Trip Across the USA, Measurement & Calculations
By Geography & Math Made Easy
This activity incorporates math with geography:
- Measurement
- Gas Cost Calculations
- Driving Time Calculations
- Mileage Calculations &
- Map Reading
It encourages students to problem solve and to accurately use a map scale to plan a round-trip throughout the United States. Students will use higher-thinking skills to calculate distances, mileage, driving times, and gas costs. Your students will have a blast with this activity and find ownership in their work. Instructions include great tips on using yarn to teach students to calculate distances on a road map.
This lesson will require each team has a large laminated road map that can be purchased through or donated by your local stores, such as Walmart or Target.
If you have a way to make poster-sized maps, you can google the road maps of America and there are many that can be found.
Disclosure: One purchase is good for one teacher usage (unlimited classes). If more wish to use this product, please purchase discounted additional licenses, one per teacher. This product comes under the copyright of Geography & Math Made Easy.
Fibonacci Sequence, Golden Ratio, Pascal Triangle-A Fun Real-Life Math activity!
By Daniel
A fun DIY discovery exercise/project for students (with complete answer key) on the Fibonacci Sequence, the Golden Ratio and the Pascal Triangle. The artistic students will especially love this project.
In this DIY resource (with complete key) , students will discover the famous Fibonacci Sequence, see how it relates to The Golden Ratio, complete their own Pascal Triangle and see how one can see the Fibonacci Sequence inside The Pascal Triangle.
The teacher needs no prep for this exercise and all complete answers are provided. Students will review and refine their addition and multiplication skills while having lots of fun with numbers. There is a section in the task where students who love art will be able to apply their artistic skills well.
These skills are applicable in this resource: Addition of 2- and 3-digit numbers, factors, multiples, algebra, adding like terms, division, ratio, decimals, Golden Ratio.
This is our best Seller, and it is not difficult to see why! Get the kids involved in it, and they will love it!
You might want to look at this poster of Pascal's Triangle as well!
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By LittleStreams
This game is available in a 5 for 3 bundle. It is a great little twist on a traditional/straight game of Rummy. There are 4 suits of increasing difficulty, with solutions that range between 1 and 13. The twist being that players have to work out the values of x, y, a and b in order to play the game.
The game is easily printed on standard card, and is quickly prepared thanks to easy-cut guides.
This card game is also available in a bundle of 5 games for the price of 3. For savings, click here to see.
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SCAVENGER HUNT Find the Slope of a Line Given a Graph
By Candy Apple Class Aids
✨Unlock the Fun in Learning Finding the Slope of a Line Given a Graph!✨
Engage your students with an exciting kinesthetic activity designed specifically for mastering finding the slope of a line given a graph! With 17 interactive stations, this engaging learning activity will get your students moving and thinking critically.
How It Works:
- Start with a Student Sheet: Each student receives a scavenger hunt sheet to track their progress. Students may select where to begin, or you may assign them to a particular station.
- Solve and Record: At each poster, students solve the challenge problem at the bottom of the poster, record their answer on the student recording sheet, and find their next destination based on their answer.
- Explore and Discover: Once students find their answer, they are going to “sprint” (or walk calmly ☺) to the poster with their answer at the top of it.
- Collaborate and Compete: As they sprint (or walk calmly) to new stations, they can work cooperatively while reinforcing key concepts.
Why Choose Our Scavenger Hunt?
✅Promotes Active Learning: Keeps students engaged through movement
and collaboration.
✅Reinforces Key Skills: Focuses on understanding finding the slope of a line
given a graph in a fun, interactive way.
✅Flexible Setup: Perfect for any classroom environment—adaptable to your
teaching style!
✅Print & Go Resource: Simply print and post the stations randomly around
the activity space. Easy.
Ready to transform your lessons? Don’t miss out on this highly engaging learning experience!
✨Happy Teaching!✨
Check out these other Scavenger Hunt activities:
SCAVENGER HUNT Linear Inequalities
SCAVENGER HUNT Linear Equations and Inequalities
SCAVENGER HUNT Direct and Inverse Variation
SCAVENGER HUNT One-step Inequalities
Stay connected: Follow ❤️ Candy Apple Class Aids for more.
Factoring Trinomials (When a Equals 1) Printable Scavenger Hunt
By Cockrell's Creations Math and More
This fun Factoring Trinomials Printable Scavenger Hunt will have your students engaged and excited about practicing mathematical concepts. Students are given a set of twelve quadratic functions and are asked to solve by factoring.
Task cards are printed and placed randomly around the learning area. Students can begin at any card. They are presented with a quadratic equation and are to solve by factoring. They search for their solution on another problem card and solve the problem that is on the same card. If a student returns, on the twelfth turn, to his starting point, he has solved them all correctly.
This self-checking activity can be used as an independent or partner activity to review or reinforce application of the concept.
Simply print, cut (and laminate), and post!
Writing Expressions and Equations Worksheet Activity Mini Lesson
By Mathologist
Welcome to Mathologist's Dollar Store, where every teacher resource is just one dollar, helping you create a vibrant classroom without stretching your budget!
This short, printable lesson is designed to help students independently learn how to write expressions and equations. It features guided notes to support understanding and series of practice questions to reinforce skills.
This is also ideal for self-paced learning but also a great way for classroom use or homework assignments.
Best Real-Life Math with Fractions! - Wrench Sizes and Tape Measure Readings
By Daniel
Fractions are tough, unexciting and abstract. This 6-page task (with complete key), makes them practical, easy and applicable to real life.
Students will practice the skills of
- equivalent fractions
- comparing fractions
- adding fractions
- adding mixed numbers
- getting common denominators
- using ratio to compare mm to inches.
The task can be used well for
- review in later grades
- group work
- an end of unit assessment
- work (problem) stations
- homework (with mom and dad in the work shed)
You may find this resource equally interesting, also on Fractions.
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By LittleStreams
This is a great little card game for helping players grasp the idea that angles in a triangle and on a straight line all add up to 180 degrees. By mixing these concepts together, with cards that also show two angles, it exercises the theory in a strong and varied way. A full set of rules are included in the game, and the cards are printed with easy-cut guides to make preparation fast and simple. This card game is also available in a bundle of 5 games for the price of 3. For savings, click here to see. You may also like: Angles Worksheets UK Angles Worksheets US Angles Card Game Construction Dash Card Game If you have any comments or suggestions, and to stay updated please follow us or take a look at our Facebook Page Please click here to visit our website for more information about LittleStreams
Solving Multi Step Equations from Word Problems Printable Scavenger Hunt
By Cockrell's Creations Math and More
This fun Multi-Step Equation Word Problem Scavenger Hunt will have your students engaged and excited about practicing mathematical concepts. Students are given a set of twelve word problems in a real-world context. They are to write and solve an equation in one variable that represents the scenario.
Task cards are printed and placed randomly around the learning area. Students can begin at any card. They are presented with a word problem in a real-world context and must solve a multi-step equation that represents the situation in order to move to the next problem. If a student returns, on the twelfth turn, to the starting point, he has solved them all correctly.
This self-checking activity can be used as an independent or partner activity to review or reinforce application of the concept.
Simply print, cut (and laminate), and post!
Real-Life Math Surface Area, Volume Filling Painting and Paving a Swimming Pool
By Daniel
This printable resource includes a task with complete key. Students will have to apply their knowledge of the
1) surface area and
2) volume of prisms, together with basic knowledge of
3) the area of quadrilaterals
...to solve some real-life problems. They will be challenged to think creatively about design and budget issues around a swimming pool, all the time, using their mathematical skills to problem-solve.
This resource works great as ...
- an assessment exercise
- a task
- independent work
- for distance learning
- math stations
- math centers
- homework
- constructive group work when introducing the topic.
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